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ARTEMIS, one of the principal goddesses in Greek mythology, the counterpart of the Roman Diana. The suggested etymologies of the name (see O. Gruppe, Griechische hfythologie, ii.p. 1 267, note 2), as in the case of most of the Olympian deities, are unsatisfact ...

ARTEMISIA, daughter of Lygdamis, was queen of Halicarnassus and Cos about 480 B.C. Being a dependent of Persia, she took part in person in the expedition of Xerxes against the Greeks, and fitted out five ships, with which she distinguished herself in the sea-f ...

ARTERIES (Gr. apnrtpia, probably from alpeiv, to raise, but popularly connected by the ancients with ar/p, air), in anatomy, the elastic tubes which carry the blood away from the heart to the tissues. As, after death, they are always found empty, the older ana

ARTEMIDORUS. (i) A geographer " of Ephesus " who flour ishcd about 100 B.C. After studying at Alexandria, he travelled extensively and published the results of his investigations in a large work on general geography (TA yiuypa.<t>ovntra) in eleven books, much

ARTEDI, PETER (1705-1735), Swedish naturalist, was born in the province of Angermania, in Sweden, on the 22nd of February 1705. Intending to become a clergyman, he went, in 1724, to study theology at Upsala, but he turned his attention to medicine and natural

THEMIS, in Greek mythology, the personification of justice. In Homer Oefiis is used both as a common and as a proper noun. As a common noun (plural 0e/iiores, 0e/xn-«s, 0ejiu5es), it is the body of rules and precedents established at the beginning of the world

... nhabitants were a nation of shepherds and huntsmen, worshipping Pan, Hermes and Artemis, primitive nature-deities. The difficulties of communication and especially the lack of a seaboard seriously hindered intercourse with the rest of Greece. Consequently the ...

... nt aliens (metoeci) in their family and legal affairs. He offered sacrifices to Artemis Agrotera and Enyalios, superintended epitaphia and arranged for the annual honours paid to the tyrannicides. His official residence was the Epilyceum (formerly called the P ...

... ter the battle of Philippi she was put to death at Miletus (or in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus) by order of Mark Antony, at the request of her sister Cleopatra (Dio Cassius xlii. 39; Caesar, Bell. civ. iii. 112; Appian, Bell. civ. v. 9). AUTHORITIES. — For ...

... dependence of its rebellious allies (355 B.C.). Then the king attempted ARTEDI— ARTEMIS to subjugate Egypt, but two expeditions were unsuccessful, and, in consequence, Sidon and the other Phoenician towns, and tin- princes of Cyprus, rebelled against Persia an ...

... be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the thane, liL.r the virgin goddess Artemis. At the Calydonian boar-hunt her arrow* were the first in hit ihr monster, for which its head and hide were given her by Meleagcr. At the funeral games of Pclias, she wrest ...

... nd, and almost facing the entrance of the Gulf of Pagasae, is the promontory of Artemisium, celebrated for the great naval victory gained by the Greeks over the Persians, 480 B.C. Towards the centre, to the N.E. of Chain's, rises the highest of its mountains, ...

... personified in the great mother-goddess (called by various names Cybele, Leto, Artemis, &c.) and the god her husband-and-son (Attis, Men, Sabazios, &c.), representing the two dements of the ultimate divine nature (sec GREAT MOTHER or THE Coos). Here, as in th ...

... ARGELIA, one of the chief Athenian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion (about the 24th and 25th of May). The name, which was derived by the ancients from Okptiv T^V yfjv (" to r ...

... Western Arid Transition zone the flora consists largely of the true sage brush (Artemisia tridentata), but some tracts are covered with forests of yellow or bull pine (Pinus ponderosa). The Pacific coast Transition zone is noted for its forests of giant conife ...

... p, dwarf sunflower, and several species of greasewood and cacti. The sagebrush, artemisia, is characteristic of the desert areas. Bunch grass is abundant on the hillsides the year round, and affords valuable pasturage. Climate. — On account of its great divers ...